There is more of our spirit in what we say about what has happened to us than in anything that simply happens to us.
Click play to listen. Recorded on November 2, 2003.
Donna Seaman interviews Alice McDermott about her delicately insightful, family-centered novels, focusing on 2002’s Child of My Heart. McDermott illuminates methods of mimicking reality and contextualizing characters, why she can’t reread her published work, what it was like to work at a vanity press just out of college, her thoughts on the Irish Catholic families she frequently portrays on the page, and so much more.
